SuperTux 0.4.0 Milestone 2

Over ten years after the last stable release of SuperTux (0.1.3 released July 2005) the SuperTux team have announced the release of the first stable version in the Milestone 2 series.Compared to 0.1.3, this release features:a nearly completely rewritten game engine based on OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL2, ... support for translations in-game manager for downloadable add-ons and translations Bonus

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3 Super Monkey Ball Alternatives - Open Sphere Rolling Games

Marbles have fascinated the population of the blue marble for centuries. Today, we take a look at three digital variants that are open source and playable cross-platform.Veraball The newest addition to the group of open source ball-rolling games is minimal and was made using the Godot engine.Rock and jazz music accompanies your through the only two levels so far. None of them are super hard, maki

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Warsow 2.0 is now almost fully FOSS!

Great news for the FOSS enthusiasts: after many years of constant nagging the latest release of the great parcour/arena FPS Warsow has now most of it's artistic content under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license (with a few remaining but clearly marked ones under CC-by-ND).Also updated particle effects in Warsow 2.0You can find more screen-shots in the above link and the full

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Top 3 Open Source Pinball Games

The first flipper pinball machine was released 68 years and 1 month ago and yet there is only a handful of open source, cross-platform pinball video games available! Oh well, let's take them for a spin, shall we?UPDATE Dec 1st, 2015: 1. Added Libre Pinball, see Honorable Mentions below. 2. Added conclusion section.UPDATE Jul 17th, 2016: Updated Emilia Pinball linksNe

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Naev, Valyria Tear, Wyrmsun, ReTux

Wymrsun 1.6.0 was recently released (announcement on our forums and on Steam). Wyrmsun is inspired by the original Warcraft games and many reviewers on Steam compare it to Warcraft II. The project continues a steady development pace which is always a good sign so I encourage RTS fans to try it out.WyrmsumNaev 0.6.1 has been released. After a long period without releases until release 0.6.0 appear

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Anticube 2 - a game within a game

So, as I sometimes peruse various forums, the occasional gem pops up. This is one of the best hidden gems in Open Source gaming.Anticube 2 is a map for Tesseract / Cube 2 that is inspired by the game Antichamber and NaissanceE. If you are unfamiliar with those, that means it is an abstract FPS puzzle game where things are not quite what they seem. Or, as the creator Lord Kv probably better explai

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Games with G (Gorynlich & Gigalomania)

Great news for people who like GGGGames ;)The author of the new action roguelike dungeon crawler kind of darwen mayham game Gorynlich was so kind to inform us his game. It comes with this funny trailer (and some great programmer's art :p ):The code is licensed under the LGPL, while the assets are only freeware right now. But the author seems to be open to look into replacing the assets with Creat

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Stunt Rally 2.6 and Irrlamb 0.2

Stunt Rally 2.6 has been released, with new features including pacenotes (i.e. corner speed/severity hints) and a rewritten sound system with reverberation (changelog).Stunt Rally is a sandbox racing game with a huge number of tracks (172 in 2.6) and lots of cars. It was originally forked from VDrift and features Ogre3D as a graphics engine instead of the custom (and less sophisticated) graphics

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OpenDungeons and FreeOrion updates plus ReTux

A couple of long standing open source game projects have received significant updates.OpenDungeons, an open source dungeon management game, has seen release 0.6 make it out the door. Release highlights from the changelog:New spell logic with cooldown, targets and cost managementFancy new spells: Heal, Explosion and HasteParticle effects!Reworked library logic and made research order configurableN

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Devcorner: Macros Are Evil

The joys of programming - hours spent scratching one's head whilst trying to figure out why the seemingly correct code does not produce correct results.Hi, Charlie here. I used to post often.Where was I? Ah, yes, this nugget of brain fudgery from the VDrift forums posted by NaN:So I've spent some time today try to figure out why cars are still flying off in random directions when hitting curbs so

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Xonotic 0.8.1 released & related news

For those that are not keeping up to the latest development branch (via the autobuilds), the Xonotic developers have released a new version with various smaller changes and new official maps.From the user "Antibody" (known for his duel commentary videos) comes this nice video overview of the new features:(please note that due to video capture performance reasons the graphic settings are pretty lo

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Mini Sci-Fi Open Source Tower Defense Game

Purely by chance, I found an obviously abandoned but still fun to play mini tower defense with a skippable tutorial level and two playable missions, beautiful graphics and performance settings.To be a master is to spam en massSo you place towers and the shoot enemies that move towards your base. I know this! Being an impatient player type, I skipped past the tutorial and was annihilated in level

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Limit Load, new arcade combat flight simulator

Stealth development might not be very "open-sourceish", but it sometimes makes for some nice surprises in our project showcase forum.This time it was the completely new open-source game Limit Load, self described as:A cockpit flight game that is more of an arcade than a sim. The game is built on the Panda3D game engine. It is similar to the ancient games like the classic Wings or the very good

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Old school 2D RTS Wyrmsun is looking to be greenlit

We were kindly made aware by the main developer of the 2D RTS Wyrmsun that he is currently looking for support to get this game on the Steam platform (link includes a game-play video).Here is a description of the game we got from him:In Wyrmsun, humans, elves and dwarves all seek to carve a place for themselves on their different homeworlds, with humans living on Earth, dwarves dwelling on Nida

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New FOSS 3D RTS Engine, OpenRTS!

I had been following this really awesome looking tile based RTS 3D engine project (think Starcraft2 like) on the jMonkey Engine forums for a while, and it is now fully FOSS including the arts assets.Don't expect a playable RTS game, but as you can seen in this video of the in-game level editor a lot of work has been done already:You can contribute to the MIT licensed source on their github page (

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Top Futuristic Open Source Racing Games on Linux

F-Zero and Wipeout set the standard for the futuristic sci-fi racing games genre and inspire many game developers.Over the years, four projects of that genre were started and developed to a playable state that are now open source code:H-Craft by Irrgheist is a free sci-fi racer with IAP on Android. It is built with the Irrlicht engine and was recently released as free software with freeware

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DevCorner: Overlap2D editor goes open source & Godot 1.1. Beta with huge 2D engine enhancements!

Some nice developments on the 2D game-dev front lately, and as you will later see, 2D with full shader, real-time lights and so on can be a quite awsome way to make games, without having to hire a full team of 3D artists ;)First of all a great new 2D editor, Overlap2D, has been released under the Apache2 license:Contrary to other popular 2D editors (for example tiled or DAME), it is not tile base

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SDL2 FPS & on Finding New Open Source Games

I took a quick look whether one could find some open source games news (new game projects to be specific) by sorting SourceForge game projects by date but no luck, only established projects seem to show up there.So I did the same on GitHub, and after making educated guesses whether projects might be worth clicking based on their title and short description, I f ound graphitemaster/neothyne.T

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Space Station 13 remake liberated!

Many of us know Space Station 13 as "that awesome game I never played". Along with games like Dorf Fortress it stands as one of the pinnacles of the gameplay philosophy of fun through massive amounts of diversity. Originally developed in one of the most broken and unupdated platforms ever imaginable, BYOND, fans of the game have been trying to develop a standalone remake of the game for a while.A

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Galaxy Forces: Moon Lander Action!

Galaxy Forces is an open-source moon lander shooter single-/multiplayer game hosted on SourceForge, it is nearly finished.It is unique of its kind in offering global hiscores and achievements. Replays and AI enemies also available.Try it. It plays on Win, Mac and Linux.

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